Louise Gronkjaer reports on a bizarre conference staged by the king of Morocco as a PR exercise

Welcome to Dakhla – the pearl of the southern region of MoroccoPhilippe Maton/Flickr

April 2015 – On Business Class to an Occupied City in the Desert

Louise Gronkjaer writes “A brand new conference hall in the middle of the desert. Hundreds of security guards to patrol every sand dune. And absolutely no good reasons to justify that the Moroccan king has spent thousands to fly me in. So why am I in Dakhla? …(cont.)”